AURP BLOG

Eight days after AURP released its report, The Geography of Technology, Science, and Innovation Under the CHIPS and Science Act, Congress passed, and the President signed (on December 29, 2022), the $1.7 trillion Omnibus Appropriations Act to fund the federal...

For everyone who attended AURP’s 2021 International Conference (IC2021) in Salt Lake City last month (Oct. 18-21), it may not be hyperbole to say this first AURP in-person gathering in two years soared as high as the Wasatch Mountains. With our gracious and absolutely...

VIEWPOINT: READY FOR AN HQ2 REDUX? IT'S TIME TO COME TOGETHER FOR NEW REGIONAL TECH COLLABORATION Remember the frenzy in 2017 when over 200 cities and towns across the U.S. bid to house the second headquarters for Amazon? Northern Virginia in the D.C. region won that...

Earlier this summer, AURP CEO Brian Darmody attended an in-person Bisnow event in Philadelphia focused on an update on University City, "Philly's Hottest Neighborhood". Speaking at the event were Wexford's Pete Cramer and HDR's Elizabeth Mahon as moderator, both AURP...

The U.S. Innovation and Competition Act and President Biden’s Proposed Budget Adds Unprecedented Opportunities for Research Parks, Innovation Districts, Universities and States Last year I wrote about the Endless Frontier Act and its $100 billion proposal to infuse...

    AURP at 35! Thirty-five years ago, there was no Internet as we know it. No Facebook. No Twitter. And no Zoom meetings! But in 1986 a group of universities gathered in Arizona to form a non-profit association to advance university outreach, innovation,...

Here Comes the Sun: Here Comes 2021! For those of us on the East Coast of the US in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter Solstice is at Dec 21 at 5:20 am EST, when the Sun reaches its southernmost point in the sky as part of the longest night of the year. But each day...

On the Horizon: New Communities of Innovation; Billions of Dollars of New Investment Seventy-five years ago, Vannevar Bush, an electrical engineer who directed government research during the Second World War, authored Science—The Endless Frontier. His report called...

The Economist Magazine, not known for idle puffery, called this ‘one of the most inspired pieces of legislation in the past half century’. The legislation? The Bayh-Dole Act. The 1980 Bayh-Dole Act helped to unlock the inventions in laboratories across the US that...

Consider the lowly horseshoe crab. East Coast beach walkers can see these creatures, early in the morning, sometimes stranded upside down in the sand. It isn’t a crab, but more closely related to the spider family. Not well known is that the blood from horseshoe crabs...